(RealNews) – Michael Ratner: Manning describes cruel and unusual punishment; offers to plea to lesser charges Read the rest of this entry »

(BusinessInsider) – Erin Burnett of CNN put Julian Assange “Out Front” for an 11-minute interview Nov. 28, and the shouting match that concluded the segment had very little to do with the subject of the interview. Read the rest of this entry »

(MediaRoots) – An age-old question among activists and the media is how to grab an audience’s attention and hold it. In a society accustomed to twitter feeds, blog hosting, sound bites and news that serves to either placate viewers with entertainment or alarm them beyond reason, knowing how to engage people on serious issues can be quite the challenge. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Declassified military documents reveal personnel contacting Wikileaks and Julian Assange face execution for communicating with enemies of the state. Read the rest of this entry »

(MediaRoots) – Abby and Robbie Martin talk about Julian Assange’s asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy and the US’ war against whistleblowers. They also get into discussing Trapwire, Marine veteran Brandon Raub and Abby’s new show ‘Breaking the Set’ due to air on RT America September 4th, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – The hacker group Anonymous has taken down Interpol and a British police website in a campaign to free of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (HuffPost) – Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder, Faces No Criminal Charges In U.S., Sources Say – Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – Ecuador is prepared to go as far as the International Court of Justice in The Hague, to defend its sovereign decision to grant asylum to Julian Assange. Speaking exclusively to RT’s Spanish channel, the country’s Foreign Minister said they’re standing up to London and Washington to protect freedom of speech and the right to personal integrity. Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – The cost of the British government’s siege of the Ecuadorean embassy to arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is costing UK taxpayers over $75,000 per day. Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warns the British government there will be ‘severe consequences’ if they raid the Ecuador Embassy to arrest Assange. Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – A group of protestors have gathered outside the British consulate in New York, the US, over London’s handling of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – US intelligence operatives are step up their information warfare campaign against Assange spamming the same talking points in news reports and article comments all over the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – You decide – Assange came out of hiding for the first time in 2 months to give a speech, bashed by the media for promoting ‘self-interests’. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Dreamworks studio has announcing they are planning a film about the life of whistleblower Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Juice Rap News presents the new bulletin of “news show for the internet nation”. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – In the fourth episode of The World Tomorrow Julian Assange speaks with two leading Arab revolutionaries in the middle of conflict, Alaa Abd El-Fattah from Egypt and Nabeel Rajab from Bahrain. Alaa Abd El-Fattah is a long time Egyptian blogger, programmer and political activist. Read the rest of this entry »

(MediaRoots) – For Julian Assange, you just can’t do right by USA’s establishment.  They’ve got it in for him now.  Assange says they’ll call him a traitor for interviewing radicals.  Journalist Glenn Greenwald says the attacks on Assange and RT reveal as much about the critics:

“The real cause of American media hostility toward RT is the same as what causes it to hate Assange: the reporting it does reflects poorly on the U.S. Government, the ultimate sin in the eyes of our ‘adversarial’ press corps.” Read the rest of this entry »

(PatrickHenningsen) – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has made a career out of feeding the media with millions of documents, as well as being interviewed on his political situation, both of which have landed him in hot water with the US State Department and the British Foreign Office. Following 500 days awaiting extradition under house arrest in rural Great Britain, Assange has managed to turn the media tables, with Russia Today initiating him the host of their new talk show, The World Tomorrow. – Read the rest of this entry »

“If Manning had committed war crimes in Iraq instead of exposing them, he would be a free man today”

(BFP) – It’s unfortunate and disturbing that Bradley Manning’s attorneys have chosen to consistently base his legal defense upon the premise that personal problems and shortcomings are what motivated the young man to turn over hundreds of thousands of classified government files to Wikileaks. They should not be presenting him that way anymore than Bradley should be tried as a criminal or traitor. He should be hailed as a national hero. Yes, even when the lawyers are talking to the military mind. May as well try to penetrate that mind and find the freest and best person living there. Bradley also wears a military uniform. Read the rest of this entry »

(MSN) – List reveals keywords feds monitor on Facebook, Twitter

Have you ever wondered if the government — or more specifically, the Department of Homeland Security — is monitoring your Twitter or Facebook posts? If the answer’s “yes,” give yourself a pat on the back because you’re right and not simply paranoid. There’s even a list of keywords for which subcontractors hired by the DHS check social networks. Read More Here

(ExtremeTech) – New speech-jamming gun hints at dystopian Big Brother future – Read More Here

(WashPost) – Google privacy changes March 1: How to clear your search history, account information – Read More Here

(TIME) – Google Launches New Privacy Standards: 5 Ways to Control Your Online Exposure – Read More Here

(SacramentoBee) – ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Movement Now on FBI’s Radar – Read More Here

(WeAreChange) – Mayodan Town Council Rejects USWGO’s extension of time request on Agenda 21 Speech – Read More Here

(Spitfirelist) – FTR #732 Dead Man’s Chest: WikiFascism and the Attack of the Cyber-Wandervogel – Read More Here

(PaulWatson) – Homeland Security Feared ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Violence

The DHS has reinvented itself as a secret police unit to spy on political activists Read More Here

(AP) – Interpol says suspected Anonymous hackers arrested – Read More Here

(Forbes) – The TSA Is Coming To a Highway Near You – Read More Here

(BillStClair) – What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army…..?

A friend of mine recently forwarded me a question a friend of his had posed: “If/when our Federal Government comes to pilfer, pillage, plunder our property and destroy our lives, what good can a handgun do against an army with advanced weaponry, tanks, missiles, planes, or whatever else they might have at their disposal to achieve their nefarious goals? Read More Here

(IntelHub) – Police Nab 25 ‘Anonymous’ Hackers in Latin America and Europe – Read More Here

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(RealNews) – United States vs. Manning & Assange

Michael Ratner: Army is trying to pressure Manning into implicating Julian Assange so that he too can be charged and extradited to US Read the rest of this entry »

(Pilger) – This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain. Read the rest of this entry »

(MSNBC) – October 15th, 2011 – Protests outside London Stock Exchange and in Rome heat up. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was among much anticipated speakers at mass protest in London calling for end to war in Afghanistan and foreign troops pullout. RT managed to talk to him about the military interventions and the Libyan conflict in particular. Read the rest of this entry »

(WashingtonsBlog) – There Are More Slaves Today Than At Any Point In Human History

You would assume that – as messed up as things may be today – at least there is not widespread slavery, as in ancient Egypt or the American south.

But as Time Magazine noted last year:

Despite more than a dozen international conventions banning slavery in the past 150 years, there are more slaves today than at any point in human history. Slaves are those forced to perform services for no pay beyond subsistence and for the profit of others who hold them through fraud and violence. While most are held in debt bondage in the poorest regions of South Asia, some are trafficked in the midst of thriving development.

To help fight slavery, read this and – more importantly - get involved here.

And given that there are some who would like to put all of us in debt peonage, we should stand up for freedom and justice whenever and wherever you can. – Source: Washington’s Blog

(ActivistPost) – Police State Roundup: 15 Reasons Why I Choose Not to Live in the USSA

I left the United Soviet States of Amerika (USSA) five years ago and never looked back. Upon discovering that government forces executed what I learned was a “false flag operation” (thank youLoose Change), that the economy was one giant Ponzi scheme (thank you G. Edward Griffin) and that there truly did exist a movement for totalitarian world government mirroring Biblical depictions (thank you Alex Jones), I figured I had some soul-searching to do. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – In the former Soviet Union, dissidents were sent to mental institutions for the crime of disagreeing with the state. For the communists, opposition to totalitarianism was a mental disease. After the Soviet Union collapsed, governments of the Russian Federation continued the practice of diagnosing activists and journalists as insane. Enemies of the state in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and elsewhere in the communist world were also forcibly interned in state mental institutions. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (RawStory) – Assange could be prosecuted for unplanned WikiLeaks release – Read More Here

(BBC) – Wikileaks’ media partners have strongly criticised the whistleblower group’s decision to release its entire archive of US cables uncensored.

Wikileaks says all 251,287 of the leaked diplomatic cables are now online in a searchable format. Read the rest of this entry »

(RawStory) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke to a forum at the Splendour in the Grass music festival in Queensland Friday, saying that the current generation was “burning the mass media to the ground.”

“We are becoming the agents of perspective,” he said. “This generation is burning the mass media to the ground.” Read the rest of this entry »

(RawStory) – The News Corporation-owned Wall Street Journal blasted “self-appointed media paragons” who were quick to attack the British tabloid News of the World but not the release of classified information by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks.

The tabloid, also owned by News Corp., closed down after an investigation revealed it had participated in the phone hacking of celebrities, British politicians, the families of terrorist attack victims, dead soldiers and others. Read the rest of this entry »

(PrisonPlanetLive) – Julian Assange may be about to address concerns over his comments last year that 9/11 truth was a “false conspiracy” which he found “annoying”. Assange made the statement despite Wikileaks’ 2009 release of half a million pager messages on the day of 9/11 from New York City officials, many of which contradicted the official story. Read the rest of this entry »

(RawStory) – In an interview produced by Millar Grattan Media, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claims that the United State’s response to his organization’s activities has been the most severe reaction since the McCarthy era.

“The United States has brought out to the public an extremely aggressive response,” he said. “In private, it is also doing other things. That response has been the most aggressive response to an international publisher ever.” Read the rest of this entry »

(RawStory) – In a behind the scenes interview tape between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and PBS Frontline’s Martin Smith, Assange claims that WikiLeaks’ mission is not to destroy the U.S. government, but to expose government cover-ups.

RELATED: Assange: Obama looks to ‘put a chill across all investigative journalism’

“What we mean about conspiracy is simply people getting together in private to make plans to do something that the public would be outraged against,” Assange said. “They keep it in private because the public would oppose it. And if the public finds out about it and opposes it before it’s implemented, then chances are it won’t be implemented.” Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – The man behind WikiLeaks says his website’s revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. In an exclusive interview with RT, Julian Assange said it is only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – The man behind WikiLeaks says his website’s revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. In an exclusive interview with RT, Julian Assange said it is only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known. The publication of confidential cables proved deeply embarrassing for the US and other countries.

“If we look at our work over the last 12 moths, think about that. All these stories that have come out actually happened in the world, before 2010, but people didn’t know about it. So what is it that we don’t know about now? There’s an enormous hidden world out there that we don’t know about. It exists there right now.” Read the rest of this entry »

(Guardian) -WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. Assange will appeal, his legal team confirmed. If this is unsuccessful, he will be extradited to Sweden in 10 days. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (SecrecyNews) – Accessing WikiLeaks Violates Espionage Act, USAF Says – Read More Here

(DailyMail) – Julian Assange fears he could be taken against his will to the United States and executed if he is extradited to Sweden, his legal team said.

Lawyers for the WikiLeaks founder have asked the Australian government to request assurances from their Swedish counterparts that he would never be removed from their country. Read the rest of this entry »

(RedactedNews) – To the Editor:

RCFP Feb 2010 Edition for this article –
It was with deep dismay that I saw that the Rock Creek Free Press had chosen to name Julian Assange as its Man of the Year. The celebrity of Assange and WikiLeaks represents a large CIA covert operation. You do not debate a CIA covert operation or engage in a dialogue with it. You unmask it and try to shut it down. This goal is not served by making Assange Man of the Year. Further: your newspaper has deep roots in the old 9/11 truth movement, and Assange is a self-declared enemy of 9/11 truth. Read the rest of this entry »

(WeAreChangeNJ) – Julian Assange has condemned 911Truth, WikiLeaks has revealed nothing new and in fact has allowed for a total surveillance state takeover of the web. James Gourley, on the other hand, has sued the government for 9 years worth of censored videos, revealed bombshell evidence, smoking guns, cover-ups, and has blown wide open one of the biggest crimes ever carried out and never to have been properly investigated. Read the rest of this entry »

(NewStatesman) – The “technological enemy” of WikiLeaks is not the United States, but China, according to Assange.

“China is the worst offender” when it comes to censorship, says the controversial whistleblower. “China has aggressive and sophisticated interception technology that places itself between every reader inside China and every information source outside China. We’ve been fighting a running battle to make sure we can get information through, and there are now all sorts of ways Chinese readers can get on to our site.” Read the rest of this entry »

(BeforeItsNews) – Is the Espionage Act a good law? As various prominent members of our government and media add their voices to those calling for charging Julian Assange and The New York Times under the Espionage Act, it’s important to remember and not repeat the Act’s ugly past. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – The shocking WikiLeaks release, which has revealed thousands of unreported civilian casualties in Iraq, is the most accurate picture of war ever made, and it is food for thought, says the website’s editor-in-chief. The report, condemned by the Pentagon, claims that US commanders in Iraq ignored evidence of torture and the murder of civilians. Read the rest of this entry »

(Reuters) – A top Swedish prosecutor said on Wednesday she was reopening an investigation into rape allegations against Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks published more than 70,000 secret military files on Afghanistan in July in what U.S. officials have called one of the biggest security breaches in U.S. military history.

Assange has denied the charges, which a lower official had withdrawn two weeks ago, and said he has been warned by Australian intelligence that he could face a campaign to discredit him after leaking the documents.

Neither Assange nor his lawyer could be immediately reached for comment.  Read entire article

(BusinessInsider) – Are you confused about this weekend’s bizarre incident which saw WIkileaks founder Julian Assange get charged with rape in Sweden, only to have the charges revoked a few hours later?

You should be, because it makes no sense whatsoever.

And this Al-Jazeera interview (via @midasoracle) with a spokesperson from the Swedish prosecutor’s office won’t help at all. In fact, it will only make you more suspicious, as the spokesperson tries to claim that no mistakes were made, and that the revocation of the charges were normal procedure, resulting from more information coming to light.

Watch. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been clear for some time that the Pentagon would love to put a bullet in Julian Assange’s brain. But as the founder of WikiLeaks became better known, sending off a team of professional hitmen–as is their wont–threatened to become bad PR. So phony sex charges are used instead, another typical tactic of the regime. BTW. a word to the disinfo artists of the military junta: we don’t believe you about Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, Georgia, Russia, China, Israel, Palestine, Iran, or Assange.

UPDATE: So now the Pentagon’s trumped up charges against Julian Assange have been dropped, if not before the libel was implanted in at least some minds. Watch for more lies, not that they will work. One man can beat the Death Star. – Source: Lew Rockwell

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(BusinessInsider) – Swedish Prosecutors Drop Rape Charges Against Wikileaks Founder

Stranger and stranger.

Now according to the AP, the rape charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange have been withdrawn.

Prosecutors say the suspicioun was unfounded.

How these charges came to be, and then got reversed so fast, should be an interesting story. – Source: Business Insider

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(Telegraph) – “Is Assange the target of a U.S. smear campaign?” – Rape Claim Against Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Withdrawn

Julian Assange, the founder of the Wikileaks website, was at the centre of an extraordinary “dirty tricks” row today after the Swedish government issued and then withdrew an arrest warrant against him for rape. Read the rest of this entry »

Wikileaks founders Julian Assange sought by Swedish police. Read More Here

See also:

(FreeRepublic) – Julian Assange Denies Charges of Rape – Read More Here

(France24) – WikiLeaks founder Assange wanted in Sweden for rape – Read More Here

(BBC) – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape – Read More Here

(DigitalJournal) – Wanted! Julian Assange accused of rape – Read More Here

More Info @ Twitter.com/Wikileaks

(RawStory) – Following the release of 92,000 war log files, Liz Cheney is calling for WikiLeaks to be shut down and says that the founder has “blood on his hands.”

“I would point out that although you’ve got the news about the WikiLeaks documents that that came out this week and clearly Julian Assange’s effort was to change course for the US policy in Afghanistan,” Cheney told Fox News’ Chris Wallace Sunday.

“He was unsuccessful in that. He does clearly have blood on his hands potentially for the people whose names were in those documents who helped the US and I think that’s something he will have to live with now,” she continued. Read the rest of this entry »